Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Winstone

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

We're delighted that Ben has signed a new deal. He has shown in the tough competition that is the Guinness Premiership what he can do and at aged 23, he has a good future in front of him if he works hard and continues to improve.

Wladimir Klitschko

I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

Lesley Manville

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

Earl Campbell

He's had back surgery, multiple knee surgeries, ... It's football. His body took a beating, and it all shows up in later years of your life. He's aged faster because there's so much stress and so much pain.

We concluded that with regard to the risk of mad cow disease, the difference between Japanese beef and meat from American cattle aged 20 months or below is very small.

Douglas Adams

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

There appears to be a significant association between increased cholesterol levels and the risk of developing hypertension in healthy, middle aged men.

The recent strong rise in German car sales suggests that consumers are finally replacing their aged car park and the rising fuel prices certainly provide an incentive.

John Kim

Current industry data shows that American workers aren't saving enough in their workplace-provided retirement programs, and our survey indicates that this lack of preparedness extends from the accumulation phase of retirement planning into the distribution phase. Even those who are conscientious savers and investors, including Baby Boomers now aged 55 to 58, aren't prepared to convert their retirement savings into a predictable retirement paycheck that they can't outlive.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

Thomas Paine

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi

We ask the kids aged 14 to 16 to come and play their music, because it gives them something safe and fun to do, and it draws others their age. And these kids eat, too.

He aged 50 years in 10 or 15 minutes, ... The color had left his face, he was white as a sheet, and he was out of breath.

However the... head of state has visibly aged in the past two years and his health may have deteriorated somewhat. He has made a number of private visits to allied Morocco in recent months, where good and discreet private healthcare is widely available.

It has certainly aged well. It hasn't gotten tremendously commercial. It's been a unifying annual event. It's given the community a sense of community as it's grown through the years.

It has certainly aged well. It hasn't gotten tremendously commercial.

Richard Briers

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.

Donna Shalala

Illicit drug use fell from 11.4 percent (in 1997) to 9.9 percent (in 1998) among young people aged 12-17, a statistically significant decline, ... while illicit drug use overall remained flat.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Anything that is going to help reduce crime and the fear of crime, especially such problems as distraction burglaries, which Help the Aged is very concerned about, should be welcomed.

After consulting with all of the school districts in my Assembly district and talking with parents that have school aged children, I have decided to introduce legislation that will continue to increase the cap on open enrollment, ... This bill will help smaller rural schools where students currently enjoy small class sizes.

They told us we could get three guards armed with hand guns only who must be aged between 18-30 or live inside the Green Zone.

A male, aged between 30 and 40-years-old was reported to be floating in a river in Ivory Park by an eyewitness from an informal settlement.

This is the first study with national data on the prevalence of ED in the United States. ED varies by age, with 5 percent of men aged 20 to 40 having ED, to 70 percent of men 70 and older.

Jane Birkin

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Jack Abbott

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, - believe the aged friend - Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping.

It is our responsibility to respect and take care of the aged and better their lives.

It's an old building, and it has not aged well.

Julie Bishop

It is time for Government and providers, educators, unions, and health professionals to all work together to ensure that we attract and retain the best possible people in aged care, to ensure that the sector has a vibrant, interesting, rewarding career path so that it becomes a career of choice for people.

The aged and disabled population makes up about 20 percent of Medicaid and they use 60 to 70 percent of the expenditures.